After we have gathered and welcomed the Lord into our midst.  Just as Advent is a time to prepare for the coming of the Lord, we must prepare ourselves to listen to the Word of God and celebrate the great mysteries. 

-A heart is a symbol of love. In the Easter Season, the symbol of the Paschal Candle shows us the love of Christ and also His light the Beacon – that He is for all of us. We look to the light of Christ to lead us to heaven and to the fullness of God’s love forever.

Nothing we face in life is a surprise to God. His grace is sufficient for us. Our challenge is to keep our passion for life alive – we can finish projects with a song in our hearts and a spring in our step.

A question for today: Whom can I bless today with a compliment, support, a kind deed?

Pentecost set the followers of Christ on fire!  Through Christ and the Spirit the early Christians trusted God’s love and imagined things never before conceived. 

Mary’s fiat represents the beginning of the New Covenant where Jesus would live with his people and establish his church and now she, the church, listens and prepares to be one with God.

Joseph was raised by family and community steeped in the Worship and Word of God to trust that God loved him.  When visited by the angel of the Lord, Joseph tacitly listened.